Browsing Tag portraits
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Artist InterviewsCatherine MacDiarmid won the Watercolour Award in the Jackson’s Painting Prize this year with her work Personal Space: Dancer. In this interview, she discusses a series of personal ...
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Artist InterviewsPortraits for NHS Heroes is one of the defining artistic movements of 2020. Initiated by the portrait painter Tom Croft during the first UK lockdown in April, Tom’s ...
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Artist InterviewsEighteen months on from Gareth Reid winning Sky Arts Portrait artist of the Year 2017, we wanted to find out more about the gifted Glasgow based artist. The ...
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Artist InterviewsMaureen Nathan is relentlessly engaged with her practice. Always with a sketchbook, always observing what’s around her; her drawings are full of energy and excitement, fuelled by an ...
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Artist InterviewsLeslie Watts is the painter behind ‘Dora Steps Out’, a very close runner up in this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. Dora happily strolls with her son down ...
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Artist InterviewsPeter Williams was a People’s Choice Winner for his watercolour ‘Geronimo!’ in the Changing Seasons competition back in September last year. For the competition we looked for season-related ...
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Artist InterviewsFollowing on from our recent features on Pastel Painting (published to commemorate the opening of this year’s Pastel Society UK exhibition at the Mall Galleries) we have a guide to ...
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Features & Editorials“Celebrating Leicester”, an exhibition of paintings by Claire Jackson, will take place at the New Walk Museum, Leicester 26th August – 22nd September. The exhibition will feature portraits ...
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Artist InterviewsWe occasionally invite guest artists to talk about their work, techniques and materials on the blog. I hope that one artist explaining how they solved a problem or ...
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DrawingDerwent has a new tin of 6 Coloursoft pencils perfect for creating a variety of flesh tones for portrait drawing. The pencils have been selected from the Coloursoft ...
